Posted on 04/30/2008 7:56:47 PM PDT by Coleus
Tell the UN to stick the ICC up its ass.
I would accept it as well if one person can point out where it gets its moral authority to judge anyone?
Is Bellinger f’n insane? State Dep’t always looking out for other countries at the expense of ours.
The internationalists at Foggy Bottom speaking for themselves?
It’ll be a cold day in.... Oh well, I’m just an American. I have a problem with this but that’s just me. It looks like the “sovereign nation” crap only applies to Indian reservations these days.
/piss
We need to hear more about this “accepting” business.
What is the ICC relationship with the US courts?? Will it have any effect on the sovereignty of the US?? etc.??
We can’t just jump off a precipice because other countries are doing so.
This requires a serious debate.
A senior Bush administration official said Friday that the U.S. now accepts the “reality” of the International Criminal Court,
Well, since the Bush administration has been nice enough to accept the ICC, maybe the ICC will return the facor and indict the Bush administration for ‘war crimes’.
Are politicians just born stupid or what?
Yet another reason why Bush isn’t a conservative.
Our highest law is the Constitution. Period.
The problem is, who decides what a “war crime” is, and for what political motivation?
sonofa.....................
Frankly, if the EU wants to use their ICC to prosecute war criminals that's fine.
What's unfortunate is that's where they'll stop. Just prosecute; no real punishment; maybe 30 days bad behavior charge.
The ICC doesn't execute anyone.
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US Military Personel would be at risk or prosecution for obeying orders in a theater of war that are later portrayed by the press as " War Crimes."
Because our nation has a sense of morality, it can be used against us, and a soldier who is an alleged "baby killer" could actually halt or redefine US policy by virtue of action of the ICC and press coverage.
In other words the people would no longer have a sovereign nation.
The ICC could also effectively implement gun control laws enacted by the United Nations, in direct treaty superiority to the 2nd ammendment.
This is really horrible news, and if its an initiative at State, it needs to be halted and decapitated, forthwith!
There are plenty of anti-American folks, lots of them right here in the USA, who would gladly drag Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld before the ICC for “war crimes”. Lately they have been wanting to punish individual soldiers as well, since they enlisted and followed orders. You can bet that any preemptive war is viewed as a crime. Occupation is viewed as a crime. So where does that leave the USA and Israel in the ICC venue? We cannot allow our enemies and our “allies” to criminalize any actions we must take. We can save their butts time after time, and they will just prosecute us anyway.
Thats easy to do, you go to war.
No need of a court to do it.
Consensus (fashion)
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